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Scanned PDF to Text
Recognize scanned PDF pages and download the extracted text in page order on your device. Files stay in your browser.
Engine:Tesseract
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Download sampleSelect English. Page 1 should contain INVOICE and Total: 148.50; page 2 should contain DELIVERY and Order: 2048. The sample contains images only. Check numbers against the original.
What to expect
Each page is recognized as an image, in order. English, Russian and mixed recognition are available. OCR can misread letters, numbers, columns and tables: review the result. This produces plain text, not a searchable PDF.
Pages are rendered up to 4 megapixels each. Loading and each processing step allow up to 90 seconds; the whole job stops after 10 minutes. Blank pages are marked in the text. No download is offered if processing fails or no text is recognized.
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The first run may download converter files and take a moment. If it fails, check your connection or try a smaller file. Cancel stops active processing; you can choose another file and retry.